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| Introducing steaming coal from Clermont. This is just the thing to run your steam train on - as long as you are up to shovelling about 1 tonne per hour to keep yourself choochoo-ing along! This specimen displays lovely bands of bright and dull material and hails from the Permian period making it at least 250 million years old. You'd have a few lines as well if you were that old. Coal is a sedimentary rock and a good sample for students because they usually recognise it. A bit of instant success in the classroom always generates a buzz. Sniff it out on the site and get your class some decent sized samples now. |
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A geologist once told me if you find a stone that "looks like wood, smells like wood and tastes like wood" then you've got yourself a piece of petrified wood. In other words - trust your instincts when you are fossil hunting. Not everything you find is going to become the latest type specimen, but it's not likely that nothing you pick up is a real fossil. If you can't get out to sniff out your own, though, it's nice to know where you can pick some up. Read a bit about our petrified wood on the Rockhoundz blog and keep an eye on it for featured specimens, experiments that work and special things I sniff out from time to time.
See you round the ridges *|FNAME|*,
Angus
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